Reply #55: supposedly they wanted to stay with their father [View All]

[rebecca_herman]

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37530102/ns/technology_and_science-security/ according to this article

That said, they will both be legal adults very soon and if they don't want the relationship with their mother still they are free to leave at that point. Given the age of the children (who really aren't even children anymore, the childhood they could have had with her truly is gone forever), and the fact that the daughter clearly said to the mother to leave her alone, I'm not sure this was the best way for the mother to try and have a relationship with them as adults. But I suppose given it was legally her choice to make, if the kids leave as soon as they are 18 because they resent her, oh well. I'm sad for her but I'm not sure this was the best way to try and have a relationship with them given their ages and how close they were to legal adulthood. She might have been more successful had she waited a year or two and it was no longer about "taking them away from the only parent they knew" in the kids' minds, but whatever, her choice I guess.

I'm not neccesarily judging the mother, I don't think the kids will neccesarily be greatly harmed by this, they aren't little children who are going to feel scared, alone, and missing Daddy, I just question whether this will be a good outcome given the nearly adult children's feelings about it. I'm sad for everyone involved, including the mother.